Archives for "September, 2008"

Addition worksheet from mathsblog.co.uk Many parents say that the methods used today for adding are not the same as when they were at school. Often this is not strictly true: the final standard written method is the same, but the steps used to reach this standard method have changed. The worksheet attached explains this in […]

Free maths worksheet from mathsblog.co.uk A pinboard and some elastic bands are a great resource for young children to use when exploring the properties of shapes. A reminder that this can be made by nailing panel pins or small nails into a piece of plywood approximately 24cm × 24cm. Cut out the plywood and mark […]

Free maths worksheet from mathsblog.co.uk We are lucky enough to have limited access to some of the URBrainy worksheets for early years. These really are presented very well and are a great set of resources for children just starting off with maths. Here is a simple counting worksheet. Many more can be found at urbrainy.com […]

maths vocabulary list from mathsblog.co.uk There is an excellent list of the vocabulary children need to understand and use in the reception worksheet section. The following list has the new words that they should come across in school during year 1 to do with calculating and solving problems. (According to the Primary Framework for maths […]

Free maths worksheet from mathsblog.co.uk The term investigation often seems a little frightening to parents and indeed, some teachers. But a maths investigation can be very simple, as shown by this year 1 maths worksheet. The question is, “I am three years older than Sammy. How old could we be?” This is a fairly open […]

Tiffin Boys’ School, a well respected private school, has cut the amount of homework given to pupils. The students used to do anything up to 4 hours a night, but the head teacher, Sean Heslop, says that this is too much and the quality of the homework set was poor; often ‘repetitive’ or ‘mechanistic’. He […]

Vocabulary list from mathsblog.co.uk We have extensively covered the maths vocabulary that children in reception are expected to come across. The following lists are the new words that they should come across in school during year 1 to do with numbers and the number system. If a child does not respond to a mathematical question […]

It seems that our schools are not teaching maths as well as they should. Ofsted reports that although test results have improved, understanding of the subject had not. Put simply, teachers are teaching for the tests. Not a surprise really, when schools are judged on their test results. But now comes the weird bit; when […]

Free maths worksheets from mathsblog.co.uk Here are another two worksheets for early subtracting. They concentrate on subtracting a single digit from 10 and use the conventional signs for subtract and equals. At first children will probably ‘add on’ from the lower number to 10. Eventually it will be important that children know all the pairs […]

Free maths worksheet from mathsblog.co.uk Rounding numbers can often cause problems, even with older children. When rounding to the nearest 1 000 the key figure is the hundreds digit. If the hundreds digit is 5 or above, round up. If it is below 5, round down. Eg 3 750 is 4 000 to the nearest […]